“Drawing on a range of influences including psychoanalysis, contemporary fashion, and human belief systems, my work which encompasses sculpture, figurative and abstract painting, and installation, involves ritual, the re-contextualization of materials, archive, surface, and aspects of ‘the body.’ My recent paintings and multimedia installations explore core psychoanalytic notions of the symbolic, and the real, and the emergence of new meanings through distortion of established iconography.” Emma K. Beatrez (b.1995, MN) is an artist based out of Minneapolis, MN and represented by Hair+Nails Gallery. They received their BFA from North Dakota State University in 2018, and a MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020. Beatrez co-runs Night Club Gallery in St. Paul, MN. The Nemeth Art Center’s 2024 season is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota from a grant through the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.